Motivational Quotes

Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Children

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

10.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

11.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

13.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

15.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

18.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

19.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

21.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

23.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

24.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

25.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

26.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

29.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

30.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

31.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

34.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

35.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

36.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

40.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

41.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

42.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

43.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

44.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

45.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

46.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus